track-v; 4 Senses

Sense Number 1: make tracks on a surface

Sense Number 2: observe, plot, or follow a target

Examples:
It's difficult to track an animal over stony ground.
The military use radar satellites to track planes.
The terrorists were tracked to Amsterdam.
Most bears were tracked on snow in spring.
The study tracked the careers of 1226 doctors who trained at the university.
Rocketnews makes it easy to track the news that matters the most to you.
This module allows you to track the progress of a file upload.
They finally found the ship they had tracked through the night.

Sense Number 3: travel a path, traverse a distance

Examples:
After hitting the United Kingdom, the storm tracked rapidly east towards Denmark.
We tracked across a sandy seabed, towards the first reef area.
They tracked through forest and across fields for eight kilometers.